In the world of structured literacy, there are few names that are as recognizable as Barbara Wilson. A renowned literacy expert, Barbara Wilson co-founded Wilson Language Training®, an evidence-backed ...

The NAEP results in late 2022 revealed that reading scores fell for both fourth and eighth grade readers as a result of the pandemic. Only 33 percent of fourth graders are reading proficiently, which ...

Barbara A. Wilson, M.Ed. is Co-Founder of Wilson Language Training® (WLT). For 35+ years, she’s brought Structured Literacy to educators through consultation to organizations focused on reading, ...

A new state law will require districts to update literacy curricula for grades K-4 to align with research on how to teach ...

Educator Amber Moye at City Hall: New Haven “shouldn’t be indebted to a system that doesn’t work.” Amber Moye told city lawmakers she and her fellow teachers got a glimpse of how to change the way ...

Educators have worked for nearly a year to find a new literacy curriculum with vertical alignment throughout the grades and cohesion regarding reading, writing, phonics and comprehension.

PROVIDENCE – For decades, elementary teachers have been teaching students to read the wrong way. The approach, called balanced literacy, teaches students to read a word by figuring out the context: ...

Explore research on handwriting automaticity and sentence construction, plus strategies to improve writing instruction across grades K–3.

State School Superintendent Richard Woods has appointed a literacy coaching expert in the Marietta city school system to develop and lead a statewide literacy coaching model in Georgia. As structured ...

Christine Braid consults as a literacy facilitator for Tātai Angitu, Massey University. She received funding from the Ministry of Education for a research project (2015-2017). James Chapman is quoted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 3—In the fight to improve reading proficiency in New Mexico schools, the state Public Education Department is making ...

At a summit hosted at the governor’s mansion Wednesday, Heather Fleming, director of programs of the New Mexico Literacy Institute, said she was “jazzed.” Fleming is a big believer in “structured ...